Work Optional, Tanja Hester
Work Optional, Tanja Hester
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Work Optional
Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way

Author: Tanja Hester

Narrator: Tanja Hester

Unabridged: 6 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/12/2019

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

A practical action guide for financial independence and early retirement from the popular Our Next Life blogger.
In today's work culture, we're expected to hustle around the clock. But what if you could escape the traditional path and get on one that doesn't require working full-time until age 65? What if you could wake up every day without an alarm clock and do the things you love most?

Tanja Hester and her husband Mark left their crazed careerist lifestyle to live their dream life in Lake Tahoe, retiring early from high-stress careers. Now Tanja will help you map out a customized plan for freedom and make it easy to succeed, whether you're good at math and budgeting -- or not!
Work Optional is more than just a financial plan: it's a plan for your whole life -- designed by you, not by an employer or clients. Tanja walks you through envisioning your dream life, accounting for variables such as health care and children, protecting yourself from recessions and future unknowns, and achieving a purpose-filled early retirement, semi-retirement, or career intermission with completely doable, non-penny-pinching steps.

You can live a happier, more meaningful life, free from the daily grind. Regardless of where you are in your career, Work Optionalwill get you there.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cher 'N Books on May 10, 2022

2 stars - Meh. Just ok. What I did like: One short paragraph about the merits of an umbrella insurance policy. What I didn’t like: Treating the reader as though they are obtuse by unnecessarily explaining the obvious. The more expensive your life is, the harder it is to save money. Eye rolling motivati......more

Goodreads review by Jay on February 06, 2019

Early retirement has become a meme, passed through exposure to any of a number of blogs and Reddit forums focused on the concept. There are a lot of these, grown over the past five years or so. The author is one of those blog authors, following her and her spouse through their investigation of early......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on May 18, 2019

I agree with Cher's review below: "In all fairness: This is a subject upon which I am quite educated and was disappointed to gleam very little from my invested reading time. A total novice to the personal finance world that doesn’t know the difference between a stock and a bond, or doesn't have the......more

Goodreads review by Adam on February 03, 2019

This isn't a finance book or a memoir. Having read Tanja's blog for the last few years, I couldn't wait to see what she'd focus on. The result? A guidebook for how to retire early by following your own path. This one challenges you with questions, activities and thought provoking questions that help......more

Goodreads review by Timothy on April 16, 2019

Not a bad book overall, but honestly it reads like most other personal finance books out there on early retirement. So if you had read a lot of those you won't find much new here. In fact, I'm a bit disappointed by the book since I enjoyed the blog so much. It seemed to gloss over adjusting to retir......more